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Charles River Associates

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A Disheartening Experience in a Competitive and Unsupportive Environment - Associate Charles River Associates Employee Review

1.0
Jul 31, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

1. Colleagues are generally intelligent and skilled. 2. Exposure to a high-pressure, fast-paced environment can be beneficial for resilience building.

Cons

1. Managers don't care about you. 2. Lack of available projects and insufficient training provided. 3. Management and peers foster a highly competitive atmosphere rather than collaboration. 4. VP leadership excessively pressures other VPs to secure more projects, creating a stressful environment. 6. Very Unprofessional HR and Managers. 7. Compensation significantly lower than industry standards. 8. Mediocre quality of work. 9. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are superficial; all DEI efforts are mostly formalities without genuine impact. 10. Management acts nice to your face but fails to provide blunt, constructive feedback for growth.

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